Kellogg's vs Topps

[moeson]

Cereal cost about 40 cents back then. It would have cost $30 just to get 75 cards. Of course, that would not yield a complete set. By the time collectors realized that there would be no direct offer it would have taken a lot of expensive scrambling for cereal. The shift over to the Football 3D set also curtailed supply. That May 73 The Trader Speaks issue features a Stan Martucci ad offering a 1970 Kelloggs set for $8 but no 1971 Kelloggs set. This was a genuinely tough set to complete!

I hate to open that can of worms, but NY dealer Barry Allen's ad on page 26 shows that the 1973 Topps set was available for only $7 with shipping one series at a time! At the time of the May TTS issue only two series were available.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by moeson

Cereal cost about 40 cents back then. It would have cost $30 just to get 75 cards. Of course, that would not yield a complete set. By the time collectors realized that there would be no direct offer it would have taken a lot of expensive scrambling for cereal. The shift over to the Football 3D set also curtailed supply. That May 73 The Trader Speaks issue features a Stan Martucci ad offering a 1970 Kelloggs set for $8 but no 1971 Kelloggs set. This was a genuinely tough set to complete!

I hate to open that can of worms, but NY dealer Barry Allen's ad on page 26 shows that the 1973 Topps set was available for only $7 with shipping one series at a time! At the time of the May TTS issue only two series were available.

There is a classified on page 30 offering the full 1973 Topps set in the May issue.

I may change the title of this thread to as the worm turns LOL.....

[Exhibitman]

Forget the cards, I've been picking up the box panels. Got these in Cleveland over the summer:

[laughlinfan]

Love those 1970 box panels! Great memories! I can still remember getting three (THREE!!!) cards in one box in 1970, and two of them were from my favorite team (Seaver and Agee)! Days didn't get much better than that for the 5 year old version of me!

Somewhere in the great mass, my mom and I kept lots of empty Kelloggs boxes, but I don't think we started doing that until 1972 or 1973. Will have to dig those out one of these days!

For some reason, as a kid in 1973, I thought we had heard that the "3-D machines" were broken, which is why the 1973 cards were 2-D. The changing vendor seems a more likely explanation.

Anybody know if the 1972 Kelloggs All Time greats were sold as a full set as well? I remember having to eat Kelloggs Danish Go Rounds to get those - I do remember those things had a LOT of sugar in them!

[David W]

Adam - Those box panels are very cool.

I've looked for years to see if Lou Brock was on one, I don't think he is.

I saw Gibson on the top one from 1970 though.

[Exhibitman]

I don't know of a Brock panel card but then I've never looked.

Danish Go Rounds, yum! Like a Pop Tart on steroids. I have a partial from that issue. The boxes are tough!

[laughlinfan]

Yes - that was probably before PED testing on toaster pastries! In my memory, they were big and very thick - I am wondering how they fit in a toaster! Had to have been like 4 to a box?

[cardinalcollector]

Originally Posted by David W

Adam - Those box panels are very cool.

I've looked for years to see if Lou Brock was on one, I don't think he is.

I saw Gibson on the top one from 1970 though.

Dave, Brock is on the back of 1978 Kelloggs boxes. I'll try to post a pic later.

[cardinalcollector]

Brock is also on the 1977 boxes.

[cardinalcollector]

Originally Posted by David W

Adam - Those box panels are very cool.

I've looked for years to see if Lou Brock was on one, I don't think he is.

I saw Gibson on the top one from 1970 though.

For Dave: 1977 and 1978 Kelloggs Brocks.

[cardinalcollector]

On further review, that 1977 scan is Bake McBride. It was from a very small photo copy from Ebay. Randy